Word: attendant
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...When Bush returns from Crawford his energies will be focused on the John Roberts nomination, one of the few things that seems to be going well. After that comes a litany of foreign policy duties. On the anniversary of September 11 he'll attend a church service and then give a major address the next day about the global war on terror once again making the case for holding fast in Iraq. Later in the month he'll wing to New York for the annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly. Oh, and all that talk about Social Security...
...Army Europe last week invited me to attend a conference for senior officers in Stuttgart, Germany. Many of the officers had recently returned from Iraq and Afghanistan; others were about to be deployed. As always, I was struck by how the core values of the military-service and discipline, both physical and intellectual-are so different from the perpetual American Mardi Gras. More than a few officers told me they were concerned by what was happening back home...
...gave birth May 1, two days after her husband Jay, a captain, was killed at a checkpoint. Labor was induced so that she and the baby boy could attend the funeral. But Harting, of Fort Irwin, Calif., knows that the real work of eulogizing Jay to their three children has yet to begin: she wants their father's death to be a lesson that sometimes the toughest fights are the most important ones. That's why Harting smarts at Sheehan's brand of grief-fueled activism. "I sympathize with her pain. But I think Cindy Sheehan doesn...
...several hundred black Americans who do attend, slavery is the unavoidably central issue. The horrors conjured up by slave dungeons, shackles, the Middle Passage, and all the attendant misery of enslavement has the same resonance with these African-Americans that Auschwitz has for Jews. And so, slavery is the thing that irrevocably binds the festival’s American celebrants to their African brothers and forever alienates them from their “white oppressors,” an oft-heard term at Panafest...
University President Lawrence H. Summers, who was involved with the Committee on General Education as an ex officio member in 2004, did not attend the meeting. He ceased his formal contribution to the review in 2005, citing a desire “for the Faculty to take full responsibility for the review...